Try "\r?\n\W+". I haven't tried it, so I don't want to register it as an answer. In case you haven't checked it out already, you can find some specifics about Java regex here: download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/… ... If you are guaranteed that "line" is the first text on a given line, you could also try "\r?\n[^l]+".
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Mike MJun 5 '11 at 16:59